A New Cream Separator.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3082, 17 December 1888, Page 3

A New Cream Separator.

A new milk separator Las been, invented oh the continent; it is now in use iii Germany and lias been introduced into England, where it is considered a most ingenious and most striking novelty. AMr Fralim, who has used it for eighteen months in Germany praises it highly, It is termed the Steam Turbine Separator (Dr do Laval's patent). No engine is required, only a steam boiler, and by using it one can obtain all the y advantgeß 'of steam power, without f the dirt, oil, noise, and other disadvantages inseparable from the employment of an engine, It was thought by many that the Turbino Separator . would waste a largo quantity of ewi, but Mr Frahm's experiment setfl'thia at rest. - The first to use the turbine in England was Mr Bullock, of the Eggington Dairy Factory. Derbyshire; and Mr Hedges Leighton Buzzard, and both are quiti' satisfied that tlio turbine is more economical to work than those driven by an engine, The motive power is imparted by an inch jet of steam (from a boiler at 551b pressure), which actuates the maohine spindle through tho medium of a small turbine fixed in the base of the separator, No engine, intermediate or pulley, boing required, it will be roadily perceived that a great saving in space is effected; moreover, where woman folk are employed in the dairy, bolts and straps are an clement of danger,

The Grain Tariff. 0 (Canterbury Times.) The proposed flew grain tariff, tho introduction of which is, fortunately to be delayed until Jan. Ist uoxt, is calculated, if brought into force, to make the present Government quite as unpopular as was the one, in whose torm tho Hon, W, Rolleston oarned an amount of opprobrium that dogs liis political steps at overy turn, oven unto the present day. Farmers will remember how 'bitterly they resented the increased grain tariff imposed ; how the tariff although pretending to touch everything, was not imposed until after tiio whole of the season's wool had reached tho ports whence the olip was to be shipped to the English market, and thus the wool escaped the higher railway freightage rates, Farmers have not forgotten this, and still remember it. This green memory of the grain tariff on ijuipart of the farmers enabled a pol®l tyro, with none of the veteran's experienco, and not a twentieth of his talent, to ride in triumphantly at tho top of tbß poll in the Geraldine 'district Ml so out-distance the advocate of increased cost of train transit. The present Government would do woll to take a lesson aud a warning from Mr Eolloston's experienco. Tho cost of railway carriage of grain is high enough as it is, and the system at present in force is satisfactory to the farmers. It is also simplicity itself, and serves both the farmer and railway a lot of trouble aud labor that would have to be encountered wero a • change to take place of the nature purposed by the proposed now tariff. At prosent ten sacks of grain in the usual four busliol bac;s aro reckoned a ton and carried as such, provided the bags weigh 110 more than 2401b caoli. Tliisfillows a farmer 24001b to the ton iiistcad of 22401b the imperial ton. In addition to a smaller 1 ton, if the proposed change is effected, tWnAillbe added to the cost of; carrying grain the extra handling in tho shapo of weighing, &c., and endless trouble over the tare of trucks, Tho Province of Canterbury, the largest grain grower in the Colony, would be a serious sufferer in the matter, and naturally tho farmers and their representatives have prodfeted against' what would really a raising of tho cost of their grain transit from 8 per cent to 10 per cont. The Government have been wise' enough to be very careful in the matter, and in response to a very pointed telegram sojit to them on tho matter by tho Chair, man of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Presidents of tho Agricultural and Pastoral Association and tho Corn Exchange, have intimated thoir intention of not bringing tlioi change into force until January 1, with the object of taking time to reconsider. It will be greater wisdom on their part if . they do'licit waste time on reconsideration at all, but simply let well alono, and quietly forget altogether that a new tariff was eve^toposed.

Angry Beauties at' Spa. Mary Stovens, tho young Viennese lady with tho undoubtedly liritish narao who gained the third prize in " Competition of the Graces' ut Spa, is in Paris, and lifts just given it very I graphio aocount of the " show," Sho is (says tho Daily Telegraph's pondent) a protty roso-tintod blondo, with blaok oyes, and states that tho entries wore twenty-fivo in number, and that all the competitors dressed iu ball-room costumo, went every evening for a fortnight to tho Casino where they were gazed at by people who had paid 6fr. for the privilege. In the centre of tho competitors was placed tho beautiful" Fatma," who was" out of tho running," and at her feot were all her swarthy attendants. Hdllo, or Frauloin Stevens was, oil tho whole, glad to be able to compete, although sho found it fatiguing to sit out the show. Sho evidently views Mdlle Dcbroza, who was awarded tho socond prizo, with eon* siderablejealousy. Sho saysthat the Dcbroza lacks distinction, and obtained the honor simply boeause sho was only lp, was a Belgian, and has influential friends. Here is a verbatim report of this Viennese lady's description of tho other comptoitors who did not obtain high prizes, and of tho grand finale of the show:— " The non-prize winners,apart from all the rest, wore not only hideously ugly, but bad tempered and ill-bred. You cannot imagine how thoy behaved when the names of the most successful competitors wore read out. Tho scene was indescribable. There were groans, and shrieks and imprecations, When we, tho winners, received our bouquets,, the others rushed at us liko wild beasts; snateliod onr nosegays out of our hands and trampled on them, Somobody spat upon the dress of Mdlle. Soukards—the Gaudelope girl—who got the first prizo, and Mdlle, Villhin, who obtained the last, or fourth prize, whacked me with her fan end cut my arm. She had to be ejected from the place by tho police, and Mdlle. Soukards aud I had to fly literally for our lives. ' M. Soukards, the brothor of the Gaudelope beauty, who is also here, states that his sister only consented to compete owing to the pressing solicitations of friends, and that then she was entered under an assumed name, So ended tho famous" Spa Beauty Show" of the year of grace, 1888.

The Irishman and his Wife's Coffin. A bit of Irish character is well illustrated in a letter received from a correspondent 011 Saturday: A little time ago my coachman came to me in great distress. He had had a letter that morning saying that his wife, who lived on the other side of; Dublin, was at death's door, and urging him to sell out at once if ho wished to seo lier alive, lat oiicoj granted him leave of told him he would catcli^<^x^j^j|^^^^H " thca^HJPKPmaccordingj to the in the world can't, you go at once ?" " Shure, an' haven't I the cofliu to get, sir?" " Coffin, man! why, your wife isn't dead yet!" " But when she sees me comin' with a raal natc Dublin coffin, inn't it proud and plased she'll bo, the craythur, to think I wouldn't put lior in one of them common country things," he continued, " an' as to not wantin' it, yer honour, don't they tell mo in the letter that tho drouth of death is upon her ? Oohone, but it's a sad man I am this diy.', The honest fellow departed, and, I believe, carried his wife that last strange present,

Tho eelobrated Dovil's Bridge at Andermatt, Switzerland, which spans the lteiißO at a ;;reut height, fell in a fow days ago, The bridgo was orected in 1830, and was a single arch of granite, of 26 teet span.